48% of American Internet users have visited a video sharing website (e.g. YouTube). 15% say they visited one “yesterday” when asked. That’s double the number a year ago. Hat tip to Memex 1.1.
70% spam, situation normal
70% of the email processed by my business’ mail server is spam, at least according to this morning’s stats.
8990 messages Scanned by MailScanner
253.5 Total MB
6341 Spam messages detected by MailScanner
1117 Messages forwarded unscanned by MailScanner
8 Viruses found by MailScanner
18 Banned attachments found by MailScanner
401 Content Problems found by MailScanner
6361 Messages delivered by MailScanner
That’s pretty much the same as last year. And the vast majority of inbound email connections are rejected for being from known spam sources before they even get a chance to be processed by MailScanner!
Aust population grows faster than ever
According to the latest figure from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia has just experienced its fastest population increase ever! In the 12 months ending March 2007, we saw 307,100 new residents, 46% through “natural increase” (porking, I assume) and 54% through net migration.
So this is what a resources boom looks like…
This graph (right) shows the massive rise in spending on minerals exploration in Australia over the last 8 years.
The graph comes from the Australian Bureau of Statistics report 8412.0 – Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, Australia, Jun 2007 released yesterday — although this specific graph doesn’t include petroleum.
They say:
The trend estimate for total mineral exploration expenditure increased by $22.3m (5.0%) to $470.8m in the June quarter 2007. The estimate is now 37.4% higher than the June quarter 2006 estimate.
The largest contributions to the increase this quarter were in Western Australia (up $17.1m or 7.8%) and South Australia (up $7.2m or 9.8%). New South Wales showed the largest decrease of $1.7m or 4.7%.
I suppose I should say something about this being an indicator of where all the money’s been coming from lately. But we all know this already, don’t we?
Australian Social Trends 2007
If you want to know what’s really going on in this country — as opposed to the spin — dig through the latest stats in Australian Social Trends 2007. Another fine product from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one of the very few truly independent national statistical agencies.
World Map of Social Networks
Here’s a map of the dominant social networking websites by country.
I admit, just showing which one has the biggest market share isn’t all that useful unless your worldview only sees things in terms of “the winner” and “all the losers,” but still it’s interesting enough.